The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-05-19
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World ard
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest TeTe-
graphic Reports on Subjects
.of Interest.
GENERAL NEWS.


>of Interest.
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania ha:
signed the high license bill.
Lieut.. A. H. Clarke, of the United
States Marine Corps at Panama, has com
mitted suicide.
The threatened strike o. builders went
into effect at Chicago, Friday last, and
10000 workmen are now idle.
A slight shot of earthquake occurred al
Summerville and slight rumbling at
Charleston, S. c., on Friday last.
The earthquakes in the south were re.
newed last Friday and Saturday, no.
gales, Tombstone and Tuscon, Ariz, be-
ing specially favored.
Leah Diaz, the Apache charged with
the murder of Lieut.. Mott on the San
Carlos reservation, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree
Two barb wire fence manuies offactor
Chicago, Sherman & Hoyt and Schnabel
& Co., failed last week, ascribing the
trouble to the interstate commerce bill.
| Two thousand engineers and artisans
at Bolton, Lancashire, England, struck
on Saturday for an increase of two shil-
lings in wages. Ten thousand working
men are involved.
The Europa, owned by Aiken & Swift,
New Bedford, NJ ass, was wrecked last
month off the coast of Japan, near Ha-
kodate. Captain Hallett and her crew of
thirty-two have not been heard from.
Alice Flick, who recovered from a shot
inflicted by Foley in Butte about year
ago, had the same experience last month
in Ouray, COL, with another lover named
Vincent gates. Gates is in jail and the
girl may IoCOver.
The twenty-seventh annual interna-
tional convention of the Young Mems
Christian association opened at San Fran
cisco on May 18th. Two hundred and
fifty delegates from all over the world
were present.
Vim. H. Sanford, on his farm near
Washington City, last Friday shot and
killed his son Hamlet. The boy got up
in a somnambulistic spell after retiring
and was seen in the yard by his father,
who mistook him for burglar.
In addition to the special agents Of the
government, appointed to carry out the
Indian severalty law passed by the last
congress, the Indian Rights Association
of New England will employ at their own
cost man to keep cases on the deal.
Editor O'Brien is in Canada making
speeches and creating great excitement.
Ireland's sympathizers vie with each
other in doing him honor, while Lands
! downe and the Orangemen threaten him
with all sorts of punishment or ven
geance.
The Ocean King, the largest American
ship afoat, was burned at sea while be-
tween Nanaimo, B. c., and San Pedro, off
Coos Bay last week. The ship officers
and crew, twenty-five in number, were
saved by the small fishing schooner, An
gel Doll.
London has been shaken from end to
end by the visit of the queen for the pur-
pose of opening the Peoples Palace at
Mile End. The route was about eight
miles in length and through that por-
ton of London known as the city through
which she has not passed for many years.
At Louisville, KY, Albert Turner, one
of the assaulters of Jennie Bowman, who
died from her wounds last week, has been
indicted by the grand jury, tried under
his confession of guilt and sentenced tC
be hanged July 1st. The trial of VIM
Patterson jointly indicted with him was
commenced yesterday.
At Los Angeles last Thursday Mrs. .Ro'
selle threw vitriol in the eyes of Charles
Petrie, boarder in the same house be-
cause, as she alleges, Petrie came to bel
room and grossly insulted her. Petrie
says that she sent for him and when in
side the room threw the vitriol at him
Roselle, the woman's husband, says he
prepared the vitriol and told her to USE
it. Petrie's face is mass of raw flesh
from his hair to his neck, and his sight il
probably gone forever.
A brother-in-law of Senator John J
Herman, of New York, recently applied
for the Indian agency at Cheyenne River
which pays 81 800 year, and to accep
which he would have to relinquish com
mission business in the city of New Yor]
which brings him in an income of at leas
$4,000 year. The reason for his appli